Last weekend, Insider enjoyed various documentaries and interviews commemorating the 20th anniversary of one of the most extraordinary nights in political history - Labour’s landslide win in the 1997 UK general election. Now, two decades on, as the UK electorate goes to the polls again Insider sees some interesting parallels with 1997.

After Galway's solid 3-15 to 1-13 victory over Down at Páirc Esler in round six of the league, manager Kevin Walsh said Galway had been in division two for the past six or seven years because they had not been good enough, or consistent enough, to play in the top flight.

There wasn’t much left in Stephen Rochford’s voice after full time on Saturday afternoon, when he spoke following Mayo’s win over Fermanagh in MacHale Park on the back of a controversial penalty. Asked whether he thought it might come back to cost Mayo later on down the track if they don’t get a big decision, Rochford said he felt it was along time coming that Aidan O’Shea got some luck to go his way when it came to the action on the field. “I would have hoped that after seeing the attention he got in the league, he got a break, he got a black card in Monaghan for a tackle that was just an arm out in the first three minutes, he got fellas you know jumping on his back here against Dublin, if he got a break it’s not before time.”